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mixing valve
noun
- a valve receiving water from both a hot-water and a cold-water line and controlling the relative amount of water admitted from each.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mixing valve1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
Seaton slowly turned the mixing valve, a little with each advance of his lever, until pure oxygen flowed through the pipes.
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Others have a Y shaped mixing valve at some distance from the burning tip, as shown in Figure 78.
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A good way to get this discharge is to hold the starting switch in and set mixing valve lever at lean point or wide open.
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Tom ignored him, and making a guess adjustment of the mixing valve, opened the gas and threw the wheel over.
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"Then here goes for a fast ride," declared Jack, reaching for the handle controlling the mixing valve of the carburetor.
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